Dan Coats: “we are faced with a fiscal crisis which requires us to ask 'how can we take better care of the taxpayer dollars that are…”

substantial damages to the United States economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming decades.

One of the first things you can do--at this hearing, even--is to make a strong statement of support for professionalism in the IC and pledge that you will not tolerate politics influencing the analytical process.

this is not just one more technology.

I don't know what happened in that meeting. I think as time goes by, President has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, I think we will learn more, but that is the President's prerogative. If you'd asked me how that…